Something to think about is that if you write your action methods as just a thin wrapper around your actual buissnes logic, then, when it comes time to expose your business logic in another environment, you just change the thin wrapper. That is one of the arguments in favor of writing components according to IoC.. The components shouldn't need a rundata or a velocity or anything..
Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Jürgen Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Exposing Methods in Actions as WebServices > > > Hi All, > > > > We have developed a huge Turbine Application from which we > would like to > expose > some action methods as webservices. After thinking a lot I came to a > conclusion > that this could be done by just analyzing the public methods > of actions, > and > just select which ones you want and which you don’t from some sort of > eclipse > plugin. But there I have com to the point where I noticed > that there is, > in my > eyes, a design flaw in turbine. Because all Event Driven > Action Methods > are > dependent on RunData and VelocityContext objects. This makes it > dependant on a > Servlet Environment since RunData Objects are built by the > RunDataService which > in turn takes the HttpServletRequest, the HttpServletResponse, and the > ServletConfig. I remember that there was some discussion about using a > TurbineContext to get rid on the velocity dependency. > > > > I thought maybe it would be a good idea to get rid of the servlet > environment > also, and instead of a RunData Object to build a some sort of Registry > Object, > which is nothing else but some sort of Hashtable into which the > different > Objects can be stored (ParameterParser, TurbineUser, etc.). > > > > Background is that we want to develop a gui which should be > able to call > some > business methods from the actions inside our applications. > > After thinking a bit more, I have come to the conclusion that > we have to > implement our own implementation of the RunData interface. Is this > possible? > Since the RunData Objects passed to the actions via a webservice are > different > than the configured RunData Service on the Server. > > > > Does someone have experience in these sort of tasks? > > Kind regards > > > Jürgen Hoffmann > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
